Professional
engineering leadership

Orzed is led by experienced engineers with backgrounds in software architecture, engineering management and applied AI. Our leadership stays involved in the decisions that shape your project, while dedicated specialists handle design, development, marketing and day-to-day delivery.

THE FOUNDING EQUATION

20+ years of engineering management paired with deep applied AI

Our technical founders stay directly involved in the architecture, AI strategy, scope and quality gates that define your project, working alongside dedicated design, engineering and growth teams from day one.

Uğur Akçıl, Founder and Technology Executive at Orzed
Founder · Technology Executive

Uğur Akçıl

Director of Software Engineering & Systems Architect

20+ yrsEngineering Leadership
900+Projects Managed
500+Students & Mentored

With 20+ years of experience architecting high-traffic platforms and managing engineering organizations across Europe, the US and Türkiye, Uğur leads Orzed's executive strategy, system architecture and multi-disciplinary delivery pods. Having directed 900+ software and digital projects and mentored 500+ engineers and students, he turns complex technical teams and AI workflows into one predictable production engine.

  • Enterprise Architecture & Engineering Direction Directing multi-language production systems (Go, Python, Node.js, PHP/Laravel, Rust), CI/CD governance, cloud security and AI-assisted data automation across large-scale enterprise portfolios.
  • Financial, Exchange & Payment Core Systems Architected and launched high-concurrency trading, double-entry ledger and blockchain-integrated payment infrastructure from zero to full production scale.
  • 900+ Managed Deliveries & High-Velocity Pipelines Engineered custom internal developer tooling, reusable component frameworks and automated release pipelines across hundreds of commercial builds with zero-downtime reliability standards.
  • 500+ Engineers Mentored & Two Decades in Production Combined executive engineering command with structured technical mentorship and curriculum design, equipping engineering and product teams to operate at AI-native speed.

Engineering Management & Strategy · AI Transformation Governance · System & Cloud Architecture · Golang · Python · Rust · PHP / Laravel · Node.js · TypeScript · Kubernetes · Docker · Linux · Cyber Security & Risk Ops

Gökçe Akçıl, Co-Founder and Principal AI/ML Engineer at Orzed
Co-Founder · Principal AI/ML Lead

Gökçe Akçıl

M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence · AWS Certified ML Engineer

10+ yrsAI/ML & Software Eng.
200+AI Projects & Models
M.Sc. AIAWS Certified MLE

Gökçe is an AI/ML Engineer and Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience, an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer (MLA-C01) credentials. Having architected and delivered 200+ AI projects, model pipelines and enterprise integrations, she leads Orzed's applied deep learning, LLM fine-tuning, security-first RAG systems, computer vision and production MLOps.

  • Banking-Grade Document & Signature AI Systems Experience Architected end-to-end financial computer vision pipelines: fine-tuned YOLO region detection, U-Net background segmentation, Siamese/CNN forgery verification, GAN/diffusion synthetic augmentation and ONNX Runtime serving.
  • Security-First RAG & Fine-Tuned Enterprise LLMs Engineered split-storage Fernet-encrypted RAG architectures (FastAPI, ChromaDB, Prometheus/Grafana) for regulated domains and fine-tuned causal LLMs using PEFT/LoRA and 4/8-bit quantization.
  • Telecom-Scale Cloud & AWS ML Infrastructure Experience Designed distributed cloud components, microservice data integration layers and end-to-end AWS ML workflows across SageMaker Pipelines, Bedrock, Kendra, S3, Glue, Kinesis and Lambda.
  • 200+ Delivered AI Models & Full-Stack Foundations Over a decade of full-stack software, blockchain and production machine learning delivery across Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, TypeScript and high-availability cloud environments.

LLM Fine-Tuning (PEFT / LoRA) · Security-First RAG & ChromaDB · Computer Vision (YOLO · U-Net · Siamese) · AWS SageMaker · Bedrock · Kendra · PyTorch · TensorFlow · ONNX · FastAPI · Docker · Prometheus · Model Evaluation & Threshold Tuning

LEADERSHIP OVERSIGHT

Leadership involvement with dedicated specialist teams

Executive direction and specialist execution work together so your project moves fast without losing architectural or commercial focus.

01 · Solution Strategy

Direct leadership intake

Whether you are launching new software, redesigning a website, scaling ads or planning AI adoption, we align on goals and scope from the start.

02 · Architecture & Scope

Technical & AI blueprint

Our engineering and AI leadership defines the system architecture, model strategy, milestones and delivery plan before build begins.

03 · Specialist Teams

Dedicated delivery execution

Orzed's software, web, mobile, creative and marketing specialists execute day-to-day production with leadership quality oversight.

04 · Ongoing Operations

Transparent progress in The Console

Every release, campaign metric and next step stays visible in the Orzed Console with clear accountability after launch.

PUBLISHED CASE STUDIES & RESEARCH

Inspect our engineering and AI work first-hand

GÖKÇE.AI · CASE STUDY

Banking Document-to-Signature Verification Pipeline

End-to-end YOLO detection, U-Net segmentation cleanup and Siamese/CNN forgery verification built for banking risk workflows.

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UGUR.IO · FRAMEWORK

AI Transformation Across 7 Organizational Layers

How executive teams align strategy, marketing, sales, product, engineering and data so AI produces measurable ROI in production.

Read on ugur.io
GÖKÇE.AI · CASE STUDY

Security-First RAG with Split-Storage Encryption

FastAPI, ChromaDB, SQLite and Fernet encryption separating embeddings from sensitive source text, monitored with Prometheus and Grafana.

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GÖKÇE.AI · CASE STUDY

Customer Support LLM Fine-Tuned with PEFT & LoRA

Causal language model fine-tuning with SFTTrainer, 4-bit/8-bit quantization and high-throughput batch evaluation tools.

Read on gokce.ai

Engineering & Delivery Management

The hardest bottlenecksare usually managerial

Twenty years of engineering and engineering-management experience is what we bring to your scope, architecture, team shape and release path. We diagnose where delivery actually stalls, then build the structure that gets it moving again.